@morris_que14 Human nature.
In the early days of reform and opening-up, Shanghainese held a similar mindset toward people from other provinces.
However, as more and more people flocked to Shanghai, the original local identity gradually faded. Today Shanghai has become more open & friendly.
@CarlZha it's a scripted play.
At 2027, the news headline will be "China will attack in 2029" if nothing happened.
At the end of day, we all understand the writing was already on the wall.
If you know you know.
@joequant No. If you keep all the supply chains in US, your products probably won't be any competive in Chinese market.
And no, even China's state owned companies investing overseas, they have to make profit, or get political favor.
No difference to US modus operandi.
@woke8yearold@MesoAnglic@bookwormengr Well, if Europe ask China to do this & do that, what Europe have to offer in return.
Business is business, if it's doing business then let's talk like businesss.
@joequant You're writing like they(US&GE companies) had a better choice.
No, this is pure business and market competition.
They should learn from China how to run a competitve market. That's why China willing to invite US company like Tesla to set shop & special offer, but US don't.
@joequant ...
Because China simply offer a better alternatives for their assembly parts. Meanwhile, US companies have to compete against German, Japan, SK, etc, and vice versa. So you have to run a successful operation in order to survive in Chinese market.
@joequant “Now the thing is that Germany and the US could have done this ten years ago”
What you're talking about? They were literally doing the same things: setting up final assembly in China, keep the high tech parts in homeland.